The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-02-25

HOW A YOUNG GIRL WHO WAS SAID TO
BE LAMED FOR LIFE PRoPHEsIED
THE HOUR OF HER CURE, AND
GOT UP AND DANCED.

A miraculous cure, unaccountable
except by supernatural agency or the
wonderful power exercised over the
body by a strong mental delusion, was
wrought ON the 18th at Banksville,
about one and one-half miles South
west of Pittsburg on the person of Miss
Maggie Beading, the young daughter
of coal miner of that place. In a
trance last October she claimed to have
seen and conversed with the Lord and
then received divine communication
to the effect that at 2 p. NJ, on Febru
ary II, she would be raised from the
invalid bed on which she had lain for
years and be allowed to walk. That
morning the young girl was patiently
awaiting the happy hour when she
would be able to rise, and friends and
neighbors who knew of the prepara-
tions to receive the healing power of
the Almighty gathered at the humble
home of Miss Beadling's father.
All were admitted to the room about
noon and the utmost solemnity pre-
vailed while the assembled throng
awaited the manifestation of the spirit
of God. As the hour of 2 o'clock ap-
preached strange, unnatural feeling
overcame those present and they seem
ed overwhelmed by some undefinable
presence. All sat amid the most death
ly silence and appeared full of fear, but
the afflicted girls face wore an express
sion of joy and her face seemed TO
grow in beauty until 2 o'clock. Ex-
actly on the stroke of 2 she arose from
the char with her crutches in her
hands and fnging them aside, walked
about the room, to the overwhelming
astonisbment of those present. Her
ankle had been pronounced incurable,
but she now jumped about the room
like small girl. her parents almost
wept for joy and the greatest excite
ment prevailed.
The news was noised about in
Bsnksville, and almost the whole pop
ulation turned out to witness the re-
markable case. Religious exercises
we're held By Rev. Archibald, who was
present and watched the cure, and re
joicing continued all day in the Bead
ling household. TO the reporter who
had gained admission TO the house aud
saw the cure Miss b .adling said:
IL an cured, | am cured" So over.
come was she with joy that she could
| say nothing more. 1t is the belief
among neighbors that Miss Beading
was sincere in her claim of affliction,
and that she had been cured. The
trance history of Miss Maggie Bead
ling is indeed very remarkable one.
She has been an object of curie ,ity
among the people OF the little mining
village of Banksville for several months
past. Persons from a distance have
visited her through curiosity, and to all
Miss Beading, without reluctance, has
told the same straightforward story.
One thing must be conceded She is
sincere in her statements aud 80 i'm.
presses all who talk with her. Miss
Beading is less than lS years of age
| and rather handsome, Notwithstanding
the fact that she il frail and delicate
from her long confinement Sue speaks
in low, sweet voice and is so earnest
in her conversation that the thought
never enters the mind Of any of her
callers that she is praeiicing deception,
however firm may be the belief that
Miss Beading is laboring under some
delusion.